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Pray to the Empty Wells

By Iryna Shuvalova. Translated by Olena Jennings

Pray to the Empty Wells is a bilingual collection of poems by award-winning contemporary Ukrainian author Iryna Shuvalova. The forty-four poems reflect the central section of Shuvalova’s forthcoming book of Ukrainian-language poems of the same...

Smokes

By Yuri Izdryk. Translated by Roman Ivashkiv and Erin Moure

Yuri Izdryk’s poetry explodes with existential contemplations and addresses regarding love, identity, nature, society, and even God. All his poems operate with an indefatigable play with language that encompasses incessant punning rhymes, Joycean multilingual puns,...

Sweetclover

By Shann Ray

Grounded in the physical while asking metaphysical questions, the poems in Sweetclover detail love, wilderness, fracture, and fusion. They speak of wildflowers, the slant of a collarbone, the flight feathers of predatory birds, and the...

Radiation King

By Jason Gray

Ten years in the making, Radiation King, the second full-length collection by poet Jason Gray, takes us to the beginning and the possible futures of the atomic world we created at the start of the...

Pantheon

By Philip Memmer

Philip Memmer’s Pantheon is a collection of dramatic monologues written from the perspectives of imaginary gods. But these are not the usual mythological suspects: the voices here include such unlikely deities as the God of...

American Loneliness

By Roy Bentley

American Loneliness is peopled with the famous and the not-so-famous. It is a book tenanted by the Wright Brothers and Nettie Potter Bentley, Joseph Kennedy and James Brown and Jay Gatsby. America, as presented, bests...

Songs for a Dead Rooster

By Yuri Andrukhovych. Translated by Vitaly Chernetsky and Ostap Kin

Yuri Andrukhovych emerged as a prominent voice in Ukrainian literature with the publication of his first book of poems in 1985. The same year, together with Oleksandr Irvanets and Viktor Neborak, he formed the poetic...

Frankenstein's Children

By Bruce Bond

Frankenstein ‘s Children explores Mary Shelley's Frankenstein as a lens into contemporary loneliness and hunger, fantasies of reanimation and artificial thought born of a dread that would deny or master the necessities that define us,...

Terribly in Love

By Tautvyda Marcinkeviciute. Translated by Julie Kane, H. L. Hix, and Jonas Zdanys

This bilingual edition is the first English-language collection by the most celebrated woman poet in Lithuania today. Tautvyda Marcinkeviciute’s voice is both cool and ferocious, as one might expect from the official translator of Sylvia...

I'm Half of Your Heart

New and Selected Poems, 1967–2017

By Julian Kornhauser. Translated by Piotr Florczyk

In more than seventy poems gathered in I’m Half of Your Heart: Selected Poems, 1967–2017, we encounter a poet who is as politically outspoken as he is lyrically private. Fascinated by the quotidian bric-a-brac, keenly...

Caribou

By Thomas Mitchell

Caribou is Thomas Mitchell’s second full-length collection of poetry. The poems are humble, straightforward, generous, and range from the sublime to the mysterious, always with lyrical clarity. In poet Dennis Schmitz’s words, “These poems live...

Post and Rail

By Erica Funkhouser

The formal deftness of these couplets—three per page of almost exactly the same length which are, yes, a set of fence rails. Some might find that sort of strategy suspect: the idea that a formal...

What Does Not Return

By Tami Haaland

What Does Not Return examines dementia and caregiving against the expansive backdrop of the rural inland West. Through a process of loss and letting go, the poems turn away from “what cannot be undone” in...

Nasty Women Poets

An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse

By Grace Bauer, Julie Kane

An anthology of poems from women who proudly celebrate their own nastiness and that of other women who have served as nasty role models; poems by and about women defying limitations and lady-like expectations; women...

The Open Hand

By David Axelrod

The poems in The Open Hand journey across the upper Rhine and Alps to contemporary West Jerusalem and far northern Europe, asking, "Where does the joy come from?" Whether addressing the accusation of a "libelous...

This Dream the World

New and Selected Poems

By Carolyne Wright

This Dream the World: New and Selected Poems brings together the most powerful and resonant poems of Carolyne Wright's books and chapbooks to date. About the range of Wright's work, poet David Axelrod has written,...

A Field of Foundlings

Poems

By Iryna Starovoyt. Translated by Grace Mahoney

Presented in a dual-language format, A Field of Foundlings is the first in Lost Horse Press’s series of Ukrainian poetry in translation. Starovoyt’s poetry investigates the curse and virtue of forgetting, the suppressed generational memory...

Votives

Selected Poems of Kuno Raeber: From the Literary Remains

By Kuno Raeber. Translated by Stuart Friebert and Christiane Wyrwa

Chosen from among Kuno Raeber's extensive literary remains and arranged thematically, these poems plumb the depths of his spiritual and cultural heritage emanating from ancient worlds, by means of exact descriptions of everyday life that...

Receipt

Poems

By Carl Adamshick. Figures by Andy Buck

Receipt is a collaboration between artist Andy Buck and Carl Adamshick. It is a book that loves names and dialog. Andy Buck's carved, wooden figures alongside Carl Adamshick's poems begin a conversation about friendships and...

The Loves and Wars of Relative Scale

Poems

By Albert Goldbarth

True to its title, The Loves and Wars of Relative Scale is a community of poems that address ideas of perspective, of proximity—of what happens when the large-scale universe collides with our human-scale joys and...